The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi says the country’s infrastructure deficit is the result of the absence of long-term low-interest financing. According to Sanusi, countries worldwide usually provide this...
African Union (AU) Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy Elham Mahmoud Ibrahim is appreciative of the infrastructure developments China is carrying out in Africa. “The cooperation between China and Africa is very clear in the area of...
Deputy Director General at the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs Trevor Balzer has blamed a lack of engineers, technicians and artisans in municipalities for their inability to deal with the breakdown of infrastructure. “One of the...
A third pipe has been installed to increase the flow of water to the recently troubled Madibeng area. The 600mm diameter pipe will increase the water flow up to 750m³ pumped per hour. “Upon switch on [last Thursday], the needs of more communities...
Working smarter rather than harder and longer is the key to staying at the top of an increasingly sophisticated and competitive engineering design market. 3D design technology has been evolving over many years, and its application in highly complex...
A new study by Oxford University has found that globally accessible clean drinking water is achievable if good governance and management are adopted. Despite reaching the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water access in 2012, over 780...
On 4th December 2013, the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development announced the early closure of the TMSA programme. As TMSA understands this decision has been informed by a year-long process of DFID reviews and evaluations, including...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), has released its latest analysis of demand for air cargo around the world. Note the observation on the air cargo market in Africa: African carriers registered a contraction of 1.2% for freight...
The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) has laid criminal charges against the owners of a fertiliser company after the Selati River, a tributary of the Olifants River, near the Kruger National Park was polluted. Thousands of fish...
